Yaa asantewaa rawlings biography of mahatma gandhi

  • The Yaa Asantewaa War, which was fought between the Asantes and the British colonialists, is an important event in the history of Ghana.
  • Inspired by Gandhi's non-violent campaign of civil disobedience to achieve political ends, Kwame Nkrumah led present-day Ghana to independence.
  • The classic example of such a leader was the Queen Mother of Edweso, Nana Yaa Asantewaa.

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    Africa

    Legacies of Power : Leadership change and Former Presidents in African politics

    It was a widely dominant observation until the early 1990's that African rulers do not vacate their office alive. But even in the brutal reality of African politics, transition takes place and various former presidents have dealt with how to maintain power and privilege very differently. With new case studies examining the post-presidential years of the iconic Mandela in South Africa, Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya, Nyerere in Tanzania, Rawlings in Ghana, Charles Taylor in Liberia as well as the experiences of Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Malawi and Nigeria, this volume explores the dilemmas which demands for presidential transitions impose upon incumbent rulers and analyses the relationships which are evolving between new regimes and their predecessors. The contributors discuss the hybridal political systems that exist in post-independence Africa; the role allotted to or pursued bygd for

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    Module 2: Investigating History

    Section 1: Investigating family histories

    Key Focus Question: How can you structure small-group activities in your classroom to develop collaborative working and build self-confidence?

    Keywords: family; history; confidence; investigation; small-group work; discussion

    Learning Outcomes

    By the end of this section, you will have:

    • structured your activities to help pupils understand themselves and their relationships with other family members;
    • used small-group discussions to build pupils’ self-confidence as they investigate their family histories.

    Introduction

    Good teaching often starts by encouraging pupils to explore situations that they are already familiar with. In terms of history, this means using their own lives, and the lives of their immediate families, as a source of investigation. The skills used to explore this familiar history can then be used in the study of broader historical questions.

    All of us have a history, whi

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    Atlantic slave trade

    Slave trade between Africa and the Americas

    The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century, lasting through the 19th century.[1] The vast majority of those who were transported in the transatlantic slave trade were from Central Africa and West Africa and had been sold by West African slave traders to European slave traders,[2] while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids.[4][5] European slave traders gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the Americas.[6][7] Some Portuguese and Europeans participated in slave raids.